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Numbers A or one 130 a/ one hundred and thirty 1000000 a/ one million - onemore formal and more precise and can be used for emphasis: The total cost was one hundred and sixty three pounds exactly. It’s cost about a hundred and fifty quid. - a can only be used at the beginning of a number: 1000 a/one thousand 2100 two thousand one hundred
1099 a/one thousand and ninety-nine; 1100 one thousand one hundred; 1340 one thousand three hundred and forty Ordinal numbers 1st first 5th fifth 2nd second 9th ninth 3nd third 12th twelfth 4th fourth 21st twenty-first Etc.
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The figure ‘ 0 ’ The figure 0 has several different names in English, although in American English zero is commonly used in all cases: Zero - Used in precise scientific, medical and economic contexts and to talk about temperature: It was ten degrees below zero last night. Zero inflation/growth/profit. Nought - used in British English to talk about a number, age, etc.: A million is written with six noughts. The car goes from nought to sixty in ten seconds. Clothes for children aged nought to six. ‘ o ’ - used when saying a bank account number, telephone number, etc. Nil - used to talk about the score in a team game, for example in football: the final score was one nil. (1-0) - used to mean ‘ nothing at all ’: the doctors rated her chances as nil. Telephone numbers - all numbers are said separately. 0 is pronounced /ou/ (01865) 556767 o one eight six five, five five six seven six seven (or double five sex seven six seven)
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